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Greetings from Old Faithful Summer 2020✌❤

#yellowstone #ynp

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#zero #zilch #zip #nil #naught #nothing #nada

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Lamar Valley 2/2/2020

This weekend was a shot in the arm.

An impromptu trip to Mammoth, I scored a ride with a coworker and a driver that recommend I sign up for The Wake Up To Wildlife Tour. 6am Sunday on a bus to Lamar Valley. Seen my first moose, a family of three (my pictures don't do the experience justice). She's hiked Electric Peak, even shot the pix from inside the park for me . . . did I mention her playlist was on point!

This trip from Old Faithful to Mammoth I enjoyed the park like a visitor. Last season (and this season and next season too!) My
BossLady Brooke put it this way: we get to work, and live in this place that people $ave to visit maybe once in a lifetime.

The DJdriver asked me what I find is the most difficult part of my job, my answer is the same as last season: saying goodbye. You live and work alongside the same group of people (I'm scheduled to return for my 3rd season this Spring). It's a smaller staff in the winter, you get to know and care about each other. This weekend was evidence of that.

Got to see some familiar faces in Mammoth, happy to make acquaintance of new ones too! My ride home was shotgun on the luggage truck. It was snowing, alot! Visibility was poor. The Driver was a slow and steady, 50 miles in 2½ hours. I tip my hat to both Ladies who provided my rides, got me there and back safely. ✌

 Bison, rise and shine!

 Our Tour Driver Victoria

 Moose @Pebble Creek

 Elk

P.S. got back to find THIS at my door🥰

I don't know who left this for me but they know what i Like 🍫+☕=❤

Mammoth Hot Springs 2/1/2020

 Electric Peak, view from inside Yellowstone.

 Electric Peak, view from Gardiner.

 My 1st try at cross country skiing, ended in a puddle of icy water

Sharing a 🍻beer with the SkiShopCrew

The Holidays at Yellowstone 12/2019-01/2020

Uncle Sam taught me many valuable lessons b.c. (before children). One that's served me well is: everyday someone is working, even holidays. Regardless of the sentimental or traditional attachment to any given day, someone is always working. In fact, from 2006 through 2017 I missed spending most of those holidays with my kids, because I was working. 

And signing up for *Winter in Wonderland* I knew I'd be spending the holidays away from my kids and all of my loved ones. It's not been a cake walk for me or many of my coworkers. But Xanterra (my current employer) has been on point with providing us with activites (and subsequently camaraderie) to help us fill in the gaps that come with being far from home:

12/18/2019 Decorating Christmas ornaments in the lobby of Paintbrush Dorm👌

🙋‍♀️My handiwork

 Hot cocoa and cookies☕🍪

12/20/2019 Decorating Cookies at the Employee Pub. I made this one and left it for those brave enough/with the constitution to consume massive amounts of sugar (I had too much, actually overdosed on cocoa & cookies on the 18th)

 12/24/2019

Making/decorating jars of hot cocoa at Paintbrush while "Elf" was playing in the background

 Visit with the Big Guy🎅

12/25/2019 Feliz Navidad! Came home after work to find this at my door!

12/28/2019 I spy with my little eye ❣Venus next to the 🌙moon, high in the sky!

12/29/2019 Shopping trip to West Yellowstone.

 The ride back to Old Faithful!

1/6/2020 Epiphany, Three Kings Day, Día De Los Reyes Magos

Back at Old Faithful: 12/10/19-12/15/19

Shannon came to see Kyle, Sho and I off🥰

Check out our transportation: snow coach!

Bison...

...Bison...

...and more Bison!

Snow Blowing next to the Snow Lodge.

The Visitor Center

Old Faithful!

🎶it's beginning to look alot like Christmas🎶